Box 3
Contains 84 Results:
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Pictures from the Paintbox" 3 and 4, undated
Initials at bottom of both drawings. Drawings entitled "Chinese White" and "Burnt Siena." Drawings come from a series entitled "Pictures from the Paintbox" published in The Coloured Lands.
Drawing: Portrait of G.K.C., undated
Unknown artist. Signature on bottom right.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: Self portrait and two men fighting, undated
Two sheets, unsigned. The sheet with two men fighting also has several faint sketches on the back.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawings: Illustrations for The Moonstone, undated
These illustrations for Wilkie Collins' famous novel were never published.
G.K. Chesterton, Printed Drawings, 1932
Two drawings done by Chesterton for the Notre Dame publication The Juggler.
G.K. Chesterton, Poem, 1946 June 15
This previously unpublished poem was written on the fly-leaf of The Wild Knight, Chesterton's first book of poetry, published in 1900. Here it is printed on page 306 of The Tablet, Vol. 187, No. 5536. Folder includes two issues.
G.K. Chesterton, "Three Letters of G.K.C. to Maurice Baring", 1953 December 26
These previously unpublished letters appeared on pages 622-623 in The Tablet, Vol. 202, No. 5927. The letters date from the early 1920s and center on Chesterton's religious beliefs.
G.K. Chesterton, "The Idleness of G.K.C.", 1977
Item consists of a letter to a "Miss Hamel," which was privately printed by Henk van Otterloo for friends.
The Distributist League, Manifesto, undated
This manifesto for the economic ideology, distributism, shows Chesterton as the league president on the title page.
Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, 1920
Headshot of G.K. Chesterton. Credit: Underwood and Underwood, Chicago.
Photographs, G.K. and Frances Chesterton, 1921-1926
Contains three photographs: a small snapshot of G. K. and Frances Chesterton outside their home in Beaconsfield (folder also contains an enlarged copy), a photograph of the couple upon their arrival in New York for GKC’s 1921 American tour, and a headshot of GKC by a Chicago studio.
Photographs, G.K. Chesterton, 1930
Here Chesterton is pictured receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Notre Dame.
Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, 1932
Photograph and postcard of the 1932 James Gunn painting in the National Portrait Gallery.
Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, undated
Headshot of G.K. Chesterton. Credit: Howard Coster, London.
Photograph, G.K. Chesterton, undated
Headshot of G.K. Chesterton. Credit: Alvin Langdon Coburn, signed.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: Tennis player and study of three heads, 1898
Signed "G.K. Chesterton / Secretary" at lower right. The tennis player on the right of the folded sheet seems unrelated to the sketches on the left.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "The cries appeared to come from a decapitated head resting on the pavement", 1905
Chesterton's variation on an illustration for his novel The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "My account? And what have I got to do with it?", 1905
"Not this" written at lower right. Variation on an illustration for the novel The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Do you know where you are, Major?", 1905
Notes on the back of the page. Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "My account? And what have I got to do with it?", 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades. Sketch on the back of the page is of the same characters.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing, 1905
Sketch of Basil Grant, a character in the novel The Club of Queer Trades. "Not this" noted on bottom right of page.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "There is the wickedest man in London", 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "They went in quite undisguised, tied up in wisps of string or straw, to the delight of the poetic gutter boys", 1905
Variation of an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades. "Not this" noted on bottom right of page.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing, 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Our eyes were fixed where his were fixed, upon something on the counter. It was a ferret", 1905
Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "Suddenly Basil stopped and turned to us, his hands in his pockets", 1905
Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing, 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "'My dear fellow,' he cried, shaking Basil's hand again and again, 'I have not seen you for years'", 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "What do you make of that?", 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.
G.K. Chesterton, Drawing: "My proposal is that the government should pay Professor Chadd ₤800 a year until he stops dancing", 1905
Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.